I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: we live in stupid times.

The Los Angeles Times is warning that Taylor Swift concerts may be a health hazard, because of COVID.

Taylor Swift, is there anything she can’t do?

Well yes, she is incapable of maintaining a healthy relationship, but otherwise, she is magic.

Could Taylor Swift’s tour have fans seeing red on their next COVID test?

Some have gotten it after earlier concerts. It's unclear whether they've played a huge impact on transmission.

But don't be completely shocked if infection happens. What to know: https://t.co/9UL1NeWIkV

— Ron Lin (@ronlin) August 4, 2023

The MSM is experiencing COVID nostalgia and keeps trying to simultaneously drum up fear while suppressing any of the growing questions about the censorship, lies, and dangerously stupid policies that the “experts” imposed on us. It would be a tough needle to thread, but long ago the media decided it didn’t need to be truthful, logically consistent, or even loosely tethered to reality.

I am actually a fan of Taylor Swift, although I think she peaked with her album 1989. And while you couldn’t pay me less than $10,000 to attend a Swift concert (I don’t like any kind of mob event, including football games in stadiums), I am glad to see that people have decided to get out and have fun in public.

Not so the “experts,” who fear that human beings acting like something other than terrified penned sheep is dangerous. So they keep on inventing things to be panicked about.

Could Taylor Swift’s mega-tour have fans seeing red on their next COVID test?

There has been some cautious optimism among public health officials that this summer might be the first during which California doesn’t experience a major coronavirus wave — and there’s no evidence at this point that one is on the way.

But California is not in the clear or out of the woods just yet. Transmission does appear to be on the upswing, and there’s no denying the virus’ enduring power to spread, particularly in crowded settings. And crowded hardly begins to describe Swift’s concerts, let alone the fan mania that has surrounded them.

“Given the relatively low rate of COVID-19 community transmission, and the ability of everyone to take sensible precautions, we are hopeful the concerts will not significantly impact community transmission rates,” the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a statement to The Times.

I admit that it is trivially true that human beings interacting increases the chance of viral transmission. But that is only true in the sense that eating increases the chance of your choking, and crossing the street increases the chance of getting hit by a car. Hiking increases the chance of a random animal biting you and giving you rabies, or a rattlesnake injecting venom into your leg.

Life, it turns out, includes risk. And all things considered, living a human life around human beings is vital to our mental health. Living balled up in the fetal position scared to breathe is not a healthy way to live.

“Experts” have proven to be spectacularly wrong on nearly everything.

Look at school curricula, which have injected vast amounts of effort into “Social and Emotional Learning” in recent years. The result has been a vast increase in student mental illness, suicidality, violence, and self-harm.

Assume it is not intentional, and still you have to conclude that giving any power to these people is monumentally stupid. They ruin everything they touch because they do not understand how people tick. They create a fantasy about what should be good for people, then proceed to ruin lives by pushing dangerously stupid ideas and policies.

Will some people contract COVID during a Taylor Swift concert? Sure, statistically it seems impossible that nobody would. But given the fact that every COVID fanatic on Earth went to extraordinary lengths to avoid COVID and still managed to contract it, it is moronic to expend a lot of effort to avoid getting COVID.

No matter what lengths you go to, you will eventually get COVID. As Joe Biden. Anthony Fauci. Rochelle Walensky. Justin Trudeau. Ask anybody who keeps giving up advice on how to avoid COVID how well they did. They all got it. So shut up about avoiding COVID!

This is fear porn mixed with propaganda. Chances are that everybody at those concerts already has had COVID multiple times, and since it is unlikely that the audience is filled with 80-year-old COPD sufferers, it is pretty stupid to worry about this issue.

Stupid, that is, unless you want to keep people terrified. Then it makes sense.